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<h2>Latest gomepost</h2>
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<h3>Nostalgia for the present</h3>
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<time datetime='Wed, 1 Mar 2023 22:30:00 CST'>1 Mar 2023, 10:30 PM</time>
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<p>Nostalgia is part of building a narrative you can process about what’s happened in your life</p>
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<h3>Let’s talk choral music</h3>
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<time datetime='Thu, 2 Mar 2023 22:00:00 CST'>2 Mar 2023, 10:00 PM</time>
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<p>It’s still my favorite kind of music</p>
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<h1 id='title'>Let’s talk choral music</h1>
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<time datetime='Thu, 2 Mar 2023 22:00:00 CST'>2 Mar 2023, 10:00 PM</time>
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<p>
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I haven’t written especially much on here about choral music, but it’s actually very important to me.
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My composition degree included a special concentration in choral music, and despite my current <a href='dry-spell.html'>dry spell</a>,
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I still see choral music as part of my life’s calling in a special way.
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I think with getting a full-time job and getting myself established in that, I lost a certain level of focus on choral music that I had before.
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While in school, my life’s narrative revolved around music on both a micro and macro level.
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I spent my time studying music, writing it, rehearsing it, and all in service of the large-scale goal of cultivating myself as a composer.
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My current job is at least music-adjacent, but it’s hard to keep the thread of choral music as lively when my daily work doesn’t orient me towards it,
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and my general career trajectory isn’t currently bringing me closer to choral music either.
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<figcaption>They’re singing Brahms’s Requiem<br/>Photo credit: <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oratorienchor_W%C3%BCrzburg_Brahms-Requiem_14.jpg#Licensing' target='_blank'>Schorle</a></figcaption>
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In spite of all this, I still have the glowing embers from the fire of choral inspiration that once burned in me.
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Many people think of choral music as a subgenre of classical music, and certainly a lot of choral music is from that tradition, but to me, it transcends that world.
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I don’t write classical music or whatever its contemporary equivalent is; I just write plans for what I think people should do when they get together to sing.
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People coming together to sing is a holy and precious thing in the many forms it takes, and I want my life’s work to be devoted to facilitating and participating in that.
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I’ve had the incredible privilege to sing in some great choirs with superb directors, and through these ensembles I had the chance to encounter and sing many pieces that had a profound influence on me personally.
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The most moving experience I had in college was singing Brahms’s <i>Ein deutsches Requiem</i>.
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At the end of that performance, having put my all into this music I had grown to love, I found myself surprised by a sudden rush of tears.
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I barely held it together for the applause, then I rushed to the bathroom.
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There, I wept hard & loudly for about ten solid minutes, some of the most cathartic crying of my life.
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Knowing how deeply a person can be moved by the right music, it’s my ambition to write some music that people can put their hearts & souls into like that.
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Do you sing or enjoy choral music?
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Do you write any music?
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Have you been deeply moved by music?
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Let me know your thoughts at my Ctrl-C email: <code>gome<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>@<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>ctrl-c.club</code>.
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